Science & History
10 Animals You Won't Believe Are Closely Related
Here are a few critters that took a much weirder evolutionary path than you might at first expect.
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- By CRACKED Staff, Juniper Russo
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6 Insane Uses of Animals in Wartime (That Actually Worked)
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- By Drew Miller
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The 8 Most Terrifying Diets in the Animal Kingdom
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- By Jonathan Wojcik
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The 6 Most Childish Things Ever Done in Congress
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- By Jacopo della Quercia , Zach Priestly
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A ROUNDUP OF INTERVIEWS, DEEP DIVES, & TRIVIA
6 Real World Jedi Mind Tricks Salesmen Are Using On You
We've all been there: You go in for a new cell phone battery, then one of the salesmen walks up, and next thing you know you're walking out of there with every iWhatever they had in stock. Once the new gadget smell and irresponsibility high wear off, you're left wondering: How the hell did they do that?
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- By Kathy Benjamin
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18 Old-Timey Photos You Won't Believe Aren't Photoshopped
We've worked long and hard here at Cracked to make it clear that the past was badass. All you have to do is sift through old-timey photos, and you quickly realize that people back then possessed neither sanity nor a sense of self-preservation.
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- By Jacopo della Quercia
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6 Diet Fads For People Who Will Try Anything Except Exercise
In a landscape littered with unscientific and downright stupid weight loss products, it takes something extra stupid to get our attention. Fortunately, weight loss is a big business, and some of the products on the market today seem purely intended to find out how far they can go before we call bullshit.
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- By Pauli Poisuo
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7 Useful Genetic Experiments That Are Creepy As Hell
There's something weird about dicking around with the building blocks of life. To help set your mind at ease, here are some of the most baffling and bizarre experiments going on right now.
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- By Fletcher Wortmann
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6 Important Things You Didn't Know We're Running Out Of
There are resources other than oil that are key to running to society. And we're running out of them. So much so we might end up killing our neighbors to get a hold of them.
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- By Cezary Jan Strusiewicz
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5 Personality Flaws That Science Will Cure in Our Lifetime
At least half of the bad people in the world avoid trying to change because they insist nothing is their fault. It's all due to their childhood, or their genes -- their temper, their weight, their bad habits -- all of it is outside of their control. It's bullshit, right? Well ... not entirely.
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- By Dennis Hong
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The 6 Most Epic Escapes Across Hostile Territory
If you aren't currently living in a country occupied by a hostile army, you can't really imagine what it's like knowing that trying to leave home means getting your head blown off. But when people want out badly enough, they find a way. And those ways are absolutely amazing.
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- By Tony Pilgram, Cornelius Appin
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6 Things That Annoy You Every Day (Explained by Science)
It turns out that a lot of the things that annoy us about daily existence are just inevitable parts of larger systems and smaller systems that can be just as easily explained away by science.
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- By C. Coville
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7 Life Altering Decisions Made For You (Before Your Birth)
FYI: This is just another care package of horrors mailed directly to your brain from the scientific community.
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- By Sam Cooper
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5 Sci-Fi Apocalypses The Government Is Actually Planning For
There are entire real government programs devoted solely to thinking up ways to counter weather-themed supervillains and other outlandish threats normally relegated to the realm of science fiction.
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- By Kathy Benjamin
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The 7 Most Unexpectedly Awesome Parties in History
We have it better than our ancestors in every way but one: How raging our parties are.
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- By Robert Evans, Jacopo della Quercia
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